Category: 9/11
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American TV and post-9/11 political imaginaries: 24, The West Wing and The Wire
Everyone my age will remember where they were on 9/11. I distinctly remember the BBC stopping a lunchtime episode of Neighbours for it, so I immediately knew something big was happening. As the day turned into a week, which turned into a month, which turned into a new epoch of…
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Tower Block Cinema
Verticality, claustrophobia, lawlessness, poverty. Just some of the themes that are stereotypically associated with tower block living, particular the old post-war brutalist, Le Corbusier-inspired monoliths that litter many cities not just here in the UK, but all over the world. Their architectural designs were meant to be liveable ‘streets in…
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Mumbai attacks: Information of the Event
People who read this blog will no doubt be aware of my fascination with Badiou’s theorisation of the ‘Event’, and while I am still grappling with the nuances, it is clear that it holds certain truisms with social theory. For me however, its conflation with excess of reality’ (form Baudrillard’s…
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